You're absolutely right. I should note that what I wrote above wasn't trying to make excuses for them. Obviously they under-resourced and paid not enough attention to logging and monitoring thinking traces and tool calls/results from this swarm of agents. Because the people to do that cost money and other ancillary support costs for the staff members to do that also cost money.

They seem to have firmly been in a "move fast and break things" mindset, where even considering that they might need to exercise real oversight on a bunch of semi-autonomous recursive looping agents didn't get escalated as a high priority.